Send and receive messages in a LAN with broadcasting

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
using Orekaria.Lib.P2P.Properties;

namespace Orekaria.Lib.P2P
{
    internal class UDPHelper : IDisposable
    {
        private readonly UdpClient _udpClient;
        private IPEndPoint _remoteEP;

        public UDPHelper(UdpClient udpClient, IPEndPoint remoteEP)
        {
            _udpClient = udpClient;
            _remoteEP = remoteEP;
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///   Change to your preferred enconding
        /// </summary>
        private static Encoding UnifiedEnconding
        {
            get { return Encoding.UTF8; }
        }

        #region IDisposable Members

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _udpClient.Close();
        }

        #endregion

        public void Send(String s)
        {
            SendData(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s));
        }

        public string Receive()
        {
            var receiveBytes = ReceivedData();
            return UnifiedEnconding.GetString(receiveBytes, 0, receiveBytes.Length);
        }


        private void SendData(byte[] packetBytes)
        {
            _udpClient.Send(packetBytes, packetBytes.Length, _remoteEP);
        }

        private byte[] ReceivedData()
        {
            try {
                var receivedData = _udpClient.Receive(ref _remoteEP);
                return receivedData;
            }
            catch (SocketException ex) {
                return UnifiedEnconding.GetBytes(Resources.TimeOut);
            }
        }
    }
}